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Nerf the flash light

AnnoyedAtTheGame
AnnoyedAtTheGame Member Posts: 539
in Feedback and Suggestions

How powerful does this have to be?

Every pallet i get a flash light to the face.

Every survivor i get a flash light to the face.


How strong do the survivors have to be?

How weak do you need the killer?

Comments

  • gibblywibblywoo
    gibblywibblywoo Member Posts: 3,772

    You can just listen to footsteps or breathing and easily track a survivor who blinds at a pallet. Flashlight blinds are already a time sink for the survivor and if they screw up they wasted significant gen time.

    Also flashlights have been nerfed, many, many times in the past. Most people consider them the worst survivor item alongside maps nowadays.

  • Moundshroud
    Moundshroud Member Posts: 4,458
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/214168/nerf-the-flash-light

    I love it when they flash me at a Pallet. It is just a drain on their battery that doesn't get them anything. If you are listening you know which way they went, and you are going to break that pallet anyway which will take up most of the blindness. Do you see where I'm coming from? The extra blind they gave you mostly coincides with the time you spend to break that loop so it isn't really much of a loss. More to the point, they have less and less battery.

  • Mandy
    Mandy Administrator, Dev, Community Manager Posts: 23,264

    I'm sorta in agreement with Moundshroud here, I don't really mind being flashlighted at a pallet because I can still hear where they're going and they're wasting battery at that point especially if they try to chain blind. And flashlight saves are pretty rare against me, I remember to look at walls or check the area if I know a survivor with a flashlight is in the match.

    I really don't think this is about "how strong survivor has to be or how weak killer has to be" both sides have things that are strong, and a lot of the times there's counters to this ie Lightborn if you see a full flashlight squad in the lobby.

  • Lyfe
    Lyfe Member Posts: 197

    Ears my man ears.

    Tap into that brainless Spirit main for a second.